Late night follies

Once upon a time, Conan O'Brien was big. Or at least his tribulations at NBC got a lot of notice. Nowadays he does a talk show on TBS that gets 350K viewers or so. A lot of Feud reruns on GSN draw a bigger audience.

It's yet another lesson in how the media mighty have fallen. But give Conan credit, he's still trying in late night. I have a sneaking suspicion that he wants to be a game show host. He did a long series of crazed Jeopardy satires that ended with Trebek's Revenge.

Now comic Andy Daly turned up on Conan's show as a sadly lost 1980s game show host. The bit was moderately funny, though they kind of ran the joke into the ground.

Who knows, Conan might do a LeBron one of these days and stumble into a successful game show format. He could be a showrunner in our little genre and maybe get more than 350K viewers.

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